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Hans Christian Andersen: My Life As A Fairy Tale

2002, Movie, 140 mins

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life As A Fairy Tale: Review

The idea of using 19th-century fabulist Hans Christian Andersen's stories as a way to investigate his emotionally turbulent life is provocative, but screenwriter Kit Hesketh Harvey and director Philip Saville fail to exploit its potential. Young Hans (Kieran Bew), the son of a chronically ill shoemaker and a slatternly laundress (Geraldine James) who works at an asylum, brightened his bleak childhood by making up and acting out fanciful tales. When his father dies, naive Han... read more

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life As A Fairy Tale: Cast & Details

Year: 2002
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Cast
Kieran Bew: Hans Christian Andersen
James Fox: Jonas Collin
Emma Hamilton: Jette Collin
Flora Montgomery: Jenny Lind
Geraldine James: Hans's Mother
Simon Callow: Charles Dickens

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